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O how happy a thing it is (inc) (contrafactum of O Lord, of whom I do depend)
EECM 23/9
This work was identified in SECM as ‘O how happy a thing it is (I)’, and was published with that text in EECM 23. The music, however, is that of Giles’s verse anthem O Lord, of whom I do depend, and was clearly composed for those words.
The present contrafactum is probably unauthorized, and is found exclusively in sources originating from Durham Cathedral. In SECM, its organ part (GB-DRc MS A 5, p. 112) was mistakenly listed with the sources for Giles’s (presumably) bona fide setting of O how happy a thing it is.
[Entry amended 10.07.2013 by AJ]
| Source | Type | Page / Folio / Nodfd |
|---|---|---|
| GB-DRc MS A 5 | O | 112–15 |
| GB-DRc MS C 1 | MC | 8 |
| GB-DRc MS C 10 | TC | 38 |
| GB-DRc MS C 11 | TD | R38 |
| GB-DRc MS C 16 | BD | 169 |
| GB-DRc MS C 19 | B | 146 |
| GB-DRc MS C 4 | 2CtD | 52 |
| GB-DRc MS C 5 | 2CtC | 50 |
| GB-DRc MS C 6 | 1Ctd | 45 |
| GB-DRc MS C 7 (1st fascicle) | 1CtC | 256 |
| GB-DRc MS C 9 | TD | 30 |
| GB-Lbl Add. MS 30478 | TC | 92 |
| GB-Lbl Add. MS 30479 | TC | 82 |
| GB-Ym MS M. 29 (S) | BD | 103 |